Correct

[kə'rekt] or [kə'rɛkt]

Definition

(verb.) treat a defect; 'The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia'.

(verb.) make right or correct; 'Correct the mistakes'; 'rectify the calculation'.

(adj.) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; 'the correct answer'; 'the correct version'; 'the right answer'; 'took the right road'; 'the right decision' .

(adj.) socially right or correct; 'it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye'; 'correct behavior' .

(adj.) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; 'what's the right word for this?'; 'the right way to open oysters' .

Inputed by Betty--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Inputed by Andre

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Rectify, amend, mend, reform, redress, reclaim, make right, set right.[2]. Punish, castigate, chastise, discipline.[3]. Change the quality of (by something of an opposite character).

a. Faultless, exact, precise, accurate, right, true, proper, free from error, not faulty.

Checked by Flossie

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Chasten, punish, rectify, amend, reform, emend, redress, set_right, improve

ANT:Spare, falsify, corrupt

SYN:true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right

ANT:false, untrue, incorrect, faulty, wrong

Checker: Lucy

Definition

v.t. to make right: to remove faults: to punish: to counterbalance: to bring into a normal state.—adj. made right or straight: free from faults: true.—adjs. Correct′able Correct′ible.—adv. Correct′ly.—n. Correc′tion amendment: punishment: bodily chastisement.—adjs. Correc′tional Correct′ive tending or having the power to correct.—ns. Correc′tioner (Shak.) one who administers correction; Correct′ive that which corrects; Correct′ness; Correct′or he who or that which corrects: a director or governor.—adj. Correct′ory corrective.—Under correction subject to correction—often used as a formal expression of deference to a superior authority.

Inputed by Bernard

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Typed by Essie

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